Wasteland Conqueror

Chapter 17: Relationships

While those three have been progressing nicely, they are not the only ones. My intelligence, for instance, has continued to see steady as well as impressive improvement from my knowledge gathering efforts. And now sits at a hefty 17 points, not that far away from raising my brain's processing power by another 100%. I really can't wait for the day it rises to 20. It will speed up my work an absolute ton when it finally does.

Besides my intelligence attribute going up, my perception has gone up a bit as well, just not to the same extent. Reason being that I hit a bit of a slump for a while until I came up with the bright idea to rig up several pitching machines with turret targeting modules. Once I had those sucker shooting baseballs at me while my eyes were shut, it began increasing, like the rest of my attributes. It simply took me getting hit in the face a few times before I got the hang of things.

Unlike my intelligence improving at its usual fast pace, my charisma attribute has seen marginal improvement by only increasing by a piddly 2 points, raising its total to 7. Not really unexpected given how much time I spend on trying to improve all my other stats. That said, I was hoping to see a bit more improvement than that, but whatever.

Unfortunately, as that is, it isn't anywhere comparable to my luck, which has seen exactly zero improvement since I was reincarnated, and man, have I tried absolutely everything possible. I've experimented with all sorts of luck related activities to get it to improve, ranging from playing poker and slots to even getting grandma to buy a bunch of lottery tickets for me when I went out with her to play bingo with her and her friends.

After doing very many luck related activities for quite a long while, I came to the painful conclusion that luck was inherent and could not in any way whatsoever be improved through training like the rest of my attributes. I was hoping things would be different from the games and it could be improved through effort, but alas, it is what it is.

Luckily, it can still be improved via the system either by perks and quests rewards. There could be additional ways it can be raised with, but those are the ones I know of from the Wastelander games.

Alongside my attributes increasing substantially, my skills have also seen a significant increase all across the board, with my highest skill surprisingly being my heavy weapons skill, which sits at a colossal 97 closing in on 100 rapidly.

I expected either my repair or science skill to take the lead and be my highest skill with both of them sitting at 95. But I guess my interest in heavy weapons has made enough of a difference that my heavy weapons skill was able to take the lead from those two. Going to the gun range with grandpa John to practice and try out new techniques also helps with that, not to mention the blunt heavy sword I use frequently to train my melee skills.

Continuing on from my highest skill to my lowest skill, that spot is unsurprisingly occupied by my piloting skill. Not a big surprise there considering that is a skill that only really goes up with experience to my knowledge and seeing how young I am, I haven't had the opportunity nor the pleasure to get behind the wheel in this life, yet. Beyond that, I also haven't invested much effort in reading about the different driving and piloting techniques I have access to, so that contributes to its low number.

In addition to my skills, agility, intelligence, perception, and strength attributes coming a long way with charisma and luck excluded, my hand to hand combat abilities have improved to the point where I can pretty much match grandpa John in sparring, even when he's going all out. Unfortunately, grandpa John isn't in his prime any longer, thus my accomplishment isn't nearly as impressive. Too bad, I would've loved to have had a spar against him when he was still roaming the wild wasteland.

Nonetheless, with him being a bear of a man and a veteran wasteland explorer with numerous life and death battles under his belt, I would say it's still quite an achievement, especially so for my age.